Django

If you're a coffin maker, you sure did pick a good town to settle.

Django (Franco Nero), a mysterious lone gunfighter, arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town carrying a coffin. In the town there are two murderous factions: a Mexican gang led by the corrupt General Rodriguez (José Bódalo), and the ex-Confederate Klansmen of the brutal Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo). Soon, Django, who has a personal vendetta against Jackson, finds himself in league with the Mexicans to steal Jackson's go

Django becomes a force to be reckoned with when it's discovered his coffin contains a Gatling gun. He is an ex-Yankee soldier whose wife was killed by the Major while he was away fighting. Now he's come back to settle the score and starts spilling plenty of blood on both sides.

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Trivia

Django lugs around a machine gun in his coffin, the same prop was used two years prior in A Fistful of Dollars. It's probably a very inaccurate depiction of a Mitrailleuse -Machine Gun that fires belt-fed ammunition. Source / More (Web)

Franco Nero: "Even today, as I am working in Brazil, kids call me Django. In Japan, they won't even put my name on movie posters, they put Django. In Germany, they call all my movies Django" Source / More (Web)

Django proved so popular in Europe that many sequels and follow-ups were produced, though Franco Nero would not return to the role until 1987's Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno (the only sequel endorsed by Sergio Corbucci), which proved to be the last film in the series.